Luke Hadler turns a gun on his wife and child, then himself. The farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily. If one of their own broke under the strain, well ...

When Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk returns to Kiewarra for the funerals, he is loath to confront the people who rejected him twenty years earlier. But when his investigative skills are called on, the facts of the Hadler case start to make him doubt this murder-suicide charge.

And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, old wounds are reopened. For Falk and his childhood friend Luke shared a secret ... A secret Falk thought long-buried ... A secret which Luke's death starts to bring to the surface ...

MORE PRAISE FOR THE DRY

a suspenseful tale of sound and fury as riveting as it is horrific
Publishers Weekly (US)

Every so often a debut novel arrives that is so tightly woven and compelling it seems the work of a novelist in her prime. That's what Jane Harper has given us with The Dry, a story so true to setting and tone it seemed I fell asleep in Virginia only to wake in Australian heat.
John Hart, New York Times bestselling author of Redemption Road

It's extremely rare and exciting to read a debut that enthralls from the very first page and then absolutely sticks the landing. Told with heart and guts and an authentic sense of place that simply cannot be faked, The Dry is the debut of the year.
C.J. Box, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Off The Grid

Australian author Harper's debut is a stunner. Recommend this one to fans of James Lee Burke and Robert Crais...
Booklist

Winner of the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript

ISBN:

9781925481372

Publication Date:

28 / 02 / 2017

Pages:

352

Dimensions:

129 x 197mm

LOVE!Could not put it down! LOVED every page!Eliza, 07/03/2019

UntitledThe Dry is Jane Harper's debut novel. Aaron Falk left Kiewarra and didn't look back. Now a police officer, he returns home to attend a funeral of his childhood friend, Luke. But perhaps there is more to Luke's death than meets the eye...How did he die? And why did Aaron leave all those years ago? - Kate (QBD)Anonymous, 05/03/2018

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